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The number one food show on cable TV presents the ultimate guide to becoming a Top Chef. This cookbook and culinary primer in one features recipes from all six seasons of the show and season one of Top Chef: Masters, along with insider techniques from everyone's favorite contestants and judges. Covering everything from knife skills to sauces and sous-vide, How to Cook Like a Top Chef teaches aspiring chefs what it takes to be a star in the kitchen. Packed with exclusive contentincluding a foreword by Top Chef: Masters winner Rick Bayless, original recipes from contestants, behind-the-scenes interviews, juicy trivia, and tons of tips and tricksthis volume is as indispensable on the cook's countertop as it is essential reading for Top Chef fans.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

I have all three Top Chef cookbooks, and this is my current favorite. I love that it is full of actual recipes from six seasons of Top Chef (plus a season of Top Chef Masters), and while there are a few cheesy fan pages in here (interviews with randomly selected cheftestants, a look at the tattoos of season 6, some random candid shots of players and judges), they are generally well-assembled and not too much of a distraction. There are some inaccuracies in the book (I'm thinking of the bio for Rick Moonen, which has a large picture of Graham Elliot Bowles), but the info about the show is mostly correct (when a particular recipe has "Winner" in the top corner, you can be pretty comfortable in trusting that it actually won its competition, which is not always the case in these books). What sets this book above its predecessors, though, is its devotion to technique. There are text boxes in the margins of nearly every page to explain terms like blanching and agar-agar, so even the least experienced home cook should feel confident enough to try these adventurous and beautiful recipes. I haven't owned the book long enough to make anything myself yet, but I know I can find something delicious for my next dinner party. I highly recommend this for home cooks, even those who aren't fans of the show (yet).

I was looking for a book that offered instruction and cooking technique that could help take my cooking to the next level. What I got was just another cook book with chef bios and more recipes for dishes I would not likely be interested in making. There are some good instructional books on the market like James Peterson's "Sauces" that offer great insights on cooking technique. This one fell considerably short of my expectations.

For any Top Chef diehards and anyone just interested in cooking today this is a great book. The recipes are diverse both in ingredients and difficulty. The bios and stories from the judges and contestants are a delight to read for anyone that has followed the show over the years. Many of the tips are worth taking the time to read even if you have been a foodie for life... Lots of photos to inspire and explain. Worth adding to the cookbook shelf.

Ordered this for my grandson because he is showing interest in this area. This book has a lot of basic prep tips and explains many topics. It also has a lot of great recipes from the Top Chef cooking show.

The book is so good in so many ways, but the formatting is almost as bad as the original Top Chef Cookbook. I've put it on the Kindle HD, the iPad, an Android Phone, and my iPhone. It's just impossible to tell what a picture is, or what it goes with. Sometimes the captions are all on a page, with several pictures before, and some after. Sometimes a picture for a recipe is before the recipe, sometimes after. I could go on and on.

All I can really say is that there's a lot of good information & fun in this book, but the Kindle edition is the pits. When no e-book was over $9.99, that was one thing. But publishers have pointed out that putting out a Kindle edition takes a lot of extra work, etc., so they charge prices almost equal to the hard cover prices.....but they obviously aren't putting in the necessary work to make the e-books worth it!

I'm such a huge fan that I'm just loving the cookbook! I've been able to learn more about flavors instead of using butter with salt & pepper. I've been serving my 13 month old cooked carrots with a sprinkle of cinnamon on them & he loves them!

This hardback cover cookbook is really helpful for those who are intimidated to try on new shoes in the kitchen as well as those who are already confident cooking and just looking for some new tricks of the culinary trade.

Not only are there a ton of great recipes from top chefs like: Rick Bayless and Fabio Viviani, but also step by step how to instructions paired with awesome how to pictures. These how to guides cover everything from how to fillet your own fish, how to cook meat (roasting, pan-roasting, grilling, braising & etc.) to making your own pasta dough.